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Dales Cannon said:
#1 was after some 150x5 aluminium flat to machine up a bracket. I was in Brendale so I went shopping. Nearest size was 160x6 so giving more room for machining but min purchase was half a length or 2m. He needed 150mm plus fixturing so 250mm. Bugger. Ah well it will always get used. $80. As I was doing the deal a guy wandered in to the adjacent counter after an offcut of 140x4. Sorry nearest size is 160x6, minimum length 2m... he vacillated. I said want to buy a metre of mine? So he gave me $40. I paid for 2m cut in half and thus was a great transaction! Guys at the counter were pissing themselves laughing. This never happens. 😀
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The stars aligned!!
 
After swapping out a rear shock the other day and realising that I had to do the old socket and vice number to remove the mounting hardware I decided to make a tool after work today. Bloody works a treat.

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Nephew sheared his drawbar pin on the MH 6270. Asked if I could turn up a replacment. No longer available ex MF. Well yes but what size, what material and is it hardened? No idea. OK that makes it easy. Quick check suggest 1040 so that is easy enough. Grabbed the sole remaining bit and measured the hole so that is dimensions sorted. Now for some barstock. Need somehting about 45 dia and 150 long... Bareco make a bigger pin in 1040 so buyed that. Checked hardness on the old and it is unhardened. Easy. 15 minutes in the lathe this weekend... Just need to cold blue it or something to stop the dreaded corrosion.

Edit, I am going to 3D print one too. For s&g. I have some 410 stainless but I suspect that is harder than the tractor since ceramic tools barely mark it.
 
Dales Cannon said:
Nephew sheared his drawbar pin on the MH 6270. Asked if I could turn up a replacment. No longer available ex MF. Well yes but what size, what material and is it hardened? No idea. OK that makes it easy. Quick check suggest 1040 so that is easy enough. Grabbed the sole remaining bit and measured the hole so that is dimensions sorted. Now for some barstock. Need somehting about 45 dia and 150 long... Bareco make a bigger pin in 1040 so buyed that. Checked hardness on the old and it is unhardened. Easy. 15 minutes in the lathe this weekend... Just need to cold blue it or something to stop the dreaded corrosion.

Edit, I am going to 3D print one too. For s&g. I have some 410 stainless but I suspect that is harder than the tractor since ceramic tools barely mark it.
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I await the arse torn out of said tractor in three, six, one, maybe.
 
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